From monitoring your heart rate and your strength-training regimen to ensuring a good night’s sleep, these gadgets will help keep you fit and healthy.
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Cool, dude
Sleep deprivation is a killer to your health, and your bedroom climate could be the culprit. The app-based Moona Active Cooling Pillow Pad regulates your pillow’s temperature throughout the night, offering cooler temps in the evening for deep sleep, and gradual warming to help you gently wake. $400. getmoona.com.
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Wrist coach
Fire your personal trainer. The Polar Vantage M multi-sport smartwatch features GPS, a heart-rate monitor and FitSpark, a personalized daily training plan created with your goals in mind. Exercise animations appear directly on the watch face to guide you through the workout. $280. (800) 227-1314; polar.com.
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Keep it clean
Besides pearly whites, good oral health can help prevent more serious stuff like heart attacks, strokes and diabetes. Bestek’s M-Care travel sonic toothbrush takes care of your mouth by brushing at 31,000 strokes per minute, and then cleans up after itself with a UV sanitizer built into the charging station. $40. (909) 539-5158; bestekdirect.com.
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Get it straight
Healthy posture keeps joints strong and muscles engaged, both vital to your overall health. The wearable UPRIGHT GO 2 Posture Trainer corrects bad posture by vibrating when you slouch. This trains your long-term back muscle memory to sit or stand correctly for good. $100. uprightpose.com.
Tech journalist David Novak is editor of GadgetGram.com. Prices and availability are subject to change. Inclusion in this column is not an endorsement by South Carolina Living or any S.C. electric cooperative.